Honore de Balzac Quotes, Thoughts and images

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the colour from a man's entire existence.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.